Friday, September 25, 2009

Paul Vallone gives up

Ending conversations and speculation about whether Paul Vallone would run as a Republican in the race to replace Council Member Tony Avella, Vallone will endorse Democratic candidate Kevin Kim this afternoon, according to Kim’s campaign.

The endorsement will take place at 4 p.m. at Kim’s campaign headquarters in Bayside.

Anyone else think the story yesterday was planted by Vallone to make him actually look important instead of a third place loser? Here's something from the Village Voice:

That might be enough for your average mini-scandal, but there's more: Halloran is calling foul on the story - not because he's ashamed of his religious affiliation ("I am not comfortable with injecting my religion into my politics," he told the Trib. Hear Hear!), but because a Kim campaign consultant also happens to be the VP of the Queens Tribune, and because Queens congressman Gary Ackerman, who founded the paper and still holds a chunk of it, used to be Kim's boss and who urged his old employee to make the race, says City Hall.

Asked about his rival, [Kim] offered the politically savvy response of any frontrunner. "I don't want to comment on anyone's religion," he said. "It's up to the Republicans who they nominate."

He did acknowledge that Tribune VP Michael Nussbaum (a veteran Queens Democratic party player who was nailed on a bribery rap in the Donald Manes scandal, oh and who also organized Democrats for Bloomberg in 2005) is a paid consultant to his campaign and that he used to work for Ackerman as a constituent advisor. "You'll have to ask the Tribune about their articles," he said. "It has nothing to do with me."

"Here's a stand up, educated, local community guy who runs AGAINST the machine and the VALLONES and WINS... but now hes no good either."

Um, excuse me. He's got most of his money coming from waaaay outside his district. Why is that? He's also an Ackerman puppet who got in because the white guys split the vote and Asians decided to blindly vote for one of their own.

"This blog has strayed so far from its original form and purpose. It's really sad. You are anti-everything here. All complaints, no solutions."

I've offered solutions for just about every complaint. Most complaints can be solved with 3 steps:

It's already been noted that on a nationwide basis Korean "churches" have bundled mountains of money for Kim.

I'm sure Ackerman takes a cut for his support.

That might be technically legal...or maybe it's not with regards to complying with their not for profit status.

These "churches" are scattered throughout Queens...covering all neighborhoods.

When Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church came into question the next smart move was to break up into little "churches" which are much more difficult for government agencies such as the IRS to keep track of.

The act primarily as strongholds...forts on the frontier.

But in this case could they be outposts for the financial conquest...the buying of or placing their own elected officials.

Northeast Queens get ready to fight against North Korean colonization of your neighborhood similar to the way Taiwanese routed downtown Flushing.

Not a fan of Halloran but the white voters will come out in force for him.. i've said it before.. a lot of the Caucasians in the 19th will not let an 'outsider' (in reference to ethnicity) come in and run their district

In order to see Halloran's blood sacrificing ways one has to go no further than the internet archives of his website. It might be down now but the archives are there and there are small photos and descriptions of him in such horrific practices.How can Padavan, Ragusa and the other Queens Republican bosses allow this to happen in a race that a good Conservativew could have won? What an embarassment!

His website was taken down as soon as the story broke and came back online in a much shortened form over a week later. The web archives show many things Halloran apparently didn't want the public to see. Things like photos of sacrifice.

Honestly, the ignorant comments on this website are appalling. Some of the writers, who believe themselves to be so in tune with local politics, are unwilling to give Kevin Kim a chance because they are unfamiliar with him or because of his race, which is ironic; he is treated like a recent immigrant, when he's an American citizen who went to public school and lived a normal life in Queens, just like you. Many of these assumptions above are incredibly wrong. And I'm surprised people are still stupid enough to make references to North Korea. The fact that this is the talk of people in Queens, the most diverse borough in the world, in new York, is frightening. Whatever happened to real issues and actually trying to learn about the candidate?

If you are so curious about why some of his campaign funds are outside the district, his beliefs, or any of his positions, why not do some research or actually trying contacting his office or going to events /debates? Believe it or not, people have done so and gotten answers.

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